Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 286 302
Rank change year-on-year +31 +16 -108
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 504 569 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.85% 1.03% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.14% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 231 286 354
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,608 £45,263
25th Percentile £55,233 £56,250 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £91,500 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £95,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,108 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.51% -1.37% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,671 49,754 47,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.04% 89.85% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28,569 24,792 36,014
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.67%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +32 448 £70,000 +3.70% 1,042
London +67 247 £80,000 +1.59% 203
UK excluding London -43 200 £62,500 -2.51% 931
Work from Home +27 172 £72,500 +11.54% 531
South East -9 62 £61,250 -5.77% 256
North of England -7 47 £75,000 +7.14% 192
Midlands -23 41 £60,500 -3.20% 161
West Midlands -2 27 £57,468 -8.05% 87
Yorkshire +14 25 £80,000 +23.08% 85
North West +4 21 £72,500 +3.57% 98
East of England +38 18 £72,000 -0.69% 144
South West -14 17 £62,500 +13.64% 103
East Midlands -31 12 £80,000 +33.33% 65
Northern Ireland +2 11 £75,000 +26.20% 10
Wales +1 4 £53,750 -16.16% 28
Scotland -2 3 £42,000 -29.33% 48
North East +3 1 - - 9

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.57%) Confluence
2 6 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.60%) CMS
4 2 (0.40%) CICS
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.40%) MTS
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.79%) Trello
6 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 15 (2.98%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.99%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.79%) Shopify
5 2 (0.40%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) Magento
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (14.88%) SaaS
2 62 (12.30%) Azure
3 52 (10.32%) AWS
4 26 (5.16%) GCP
5 22 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (3.97%) Power Platform
7 19 (3.77%) PaaS
8 14 (2.78%) GitHub
9 13 (2.58%) H2O.ai
9 13 (2.58%) OpenShift
10 9 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.39%) Pulumi
11 7 (1.39%) Vertex AI
12 6 (1.19%) Azure AI
13 5 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.79%) Collibra
14 4 (0.79%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 4 (0.79%) Snowflake
15 2 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.78%) Broadband
2 9 (1.79%) HTTP
3 8 (1.59%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.59%) WAN
4 7 (1.39%) LAN
5 6 (1.19%) RTP
5 6 (1.19%) Wireless
6 5 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.79%) 5G
7 4 (0.79%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.40%) ATM
8 2 (0.40%) GPRS
8 2 (0.40%) LTE
8 2 (0.40%) Modbus
8 2 (0.40%) Multicast
8 2 (0.40%) PSTN
8 2 (0.40%) SAN
9 1 (0.20%) 4G
9 1 (0.20%) Intranet
9 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.97%) Metadata
1 20 (3.97%) Relational Database
2 18 (3.57%) Power BI
3 16 (3.17%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 14 (2.78%) RDBMS
5 8 (1.59%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.19%) SAP BW
8 5 (0.99%) Tableau
9 4 (0.79%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.60%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.40%) DB2
12 1 (0.20%) Big Data
12 1 (0.20%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 34 (6.75%) JIRA
2 7 (1.39%) Jaeger
3 5 (0.99%) TeamCity
4 4 (0.79%) ERwin
5 3 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
General
1 193 (38.29%) Social Skills
2 183 (36.31%) Finance
3 110 (21.83%) Marketing
4 98 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (9.33%) Legal
6 45 (8.93%) Banking
7 35 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (6.94%) Law
8 34 (6.75%) Retail
9 33 (6.55%) Financial Institution
10 30 (5.95%) Manufacturing
11 26 (5.16%) Public Sector
12 21 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (3.97%) Electronics
13 20 (3.97%) Telecoms
14 16 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (2.98%) Digital Economy
16 11 (2.18%) Billing
16 11 (2.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 143 (28.37%) Product Manager
2 70 (13.89%) Lead
3 63 (12.50%) Senior
4 29 (5.75%) Senior Manager
5 23 (4.56%) Product Owner
6 22 (4.37%) Product Lead
7 20 (3.97%) Senior Product Manager
8 19 (3.77%) Product Management Director
9 18 (3.57%) Security Engineer
10 17 (3.37%) Digital Product Manager
11 16 (3.17%) Developer
12 15 (2.98%) Change Manager
13 14 (2.78%) Architect
14 12 (2.38%) Technical Support
15 11 (2.18%) Head of Product Management
16 10 (1.98%) Data Manager
16 10 (1.98%) Head of Digital
16 10 (1.98%) Python Developer
17 9 (1.79%) Development Engineer
17 9 (1.79%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.17%) REST
2 17 (3.37%) YAML
3 13 (2.58%) Keras
3 13 (2.58%) PyTorch
3 13 (2.58%) TensorFlow
4 8 (1.59%) Flask
5 7 (1.39%) EDI
5 7 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (1.39%) FastAPI
5 7 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (1.19%) .NET
6 6 (1.19%) Node.js
7 4 (0.79%) JSON
7 4 (0.79%) OAuth
7 4 (0.79%) React
7 4 (0.79%) SAML
7 4 (0.79%) SOAP
7 4 (0.79%) XML
8 3 (0.60%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 78 (15.48%) Product Ownership
2 56 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 35 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (6.15%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 17 (3.37%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.79%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.79%) Social Media
9 8 (1.59%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.59%) IoT
9 8 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.79%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.18%) Linux
2 7 (1.39%) Unix
3 5 (0.99%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (48.21%) Roadmaps
2 204 (40.48%) Agile
3 130 (25.79%) Product Roadmap
4 121 (24.01%) Product Strategy
5 119 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 91 (18.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 81 (16.07%) User Experience
9 80 (15.87%) AI
9 80 (15.87%) Analytics
10 71 (14.09%) Computer Science
11 69 (13.69%) Mentoring
12 68 (13.49%) Information Security
13 62 (12.30%) Decision-Making
13 62 (12.30%) Product Vision
14 58 (11.51%) B2B
14 58 (11.51%) Coaching
14 58 (11.51%) User Stories
15 56 (11.11%) Business Development
16 55 (10.91%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.13%) Python
2 39 (7.74%) SQL
3 26 (5.16%) Java
4 17 (3.37%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.18%) Go
6 8 (1.59%) Bash
6 8 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.99%) C#
8 3 (0.60%) C++
9 2 (0.40%) COBOL
9 2 (0.40%) JCL
9 2 (0.40%) PHP
9 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.40%) Scala
10 1 (0.20%) Groovy
10 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.20%) R
10 1 (0.20%) SHACL
10 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 121 (24.01%) Degree
2 56 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 54 (10.71%) Master's Degree
4 34 (6.75%) Security Cleared
5 22 (4.37%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.98%) MBA
7 9 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.59%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.59%) PMP
9 5 (0.99%) CSPO
10 4 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.79%) CISM
10 4 (0.79%) CISSP
10 4 (0.79%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.60%) CITP
11 3 (0.60%) HNC
11 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.40%) Dell Certification
12 2 (0.40%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.35%) QA
2 27 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (4.17%) NIST
4 20 (3.97%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.57%) NCSC
6 17 (3.37%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.19%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.99%) GDPR
8 5 (0.99%) IFRS
8 5 (0.99%) PMO
8 5 (0.99%) SLA
9 4 (0.79%) SEPA
10 3 (0.60%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.40%) COREP
11 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.40%) FINREP
11 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.20%) GRC
12 1 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (3.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.99%) vSphere
3 2 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.40%) RACF
3 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.98%) Terraform
3 7 (1.39%) Ansible
3 7 (1.39%) Argo
3 7 (1.39%) Kustomize
3 7 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (0.40%) WSUS
6 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 54 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.55%) Google
3 20 (3.97%) Salesforce
4 18 (3.57%) Databricks
5 15 (2.98%) Dell
6 14 (2.78%) SAP
7 13 (2.58%) NVIDIA
8 12 (2.38%) Foundry
9 6 (1.19%) Zoho
10 5 (0.99%) Adobe
10 5 (0.99%) Oracle
10 5 (0.99%) VMware
11 4 (0.79%) Sage
11 4 (0.79%) YouTube
12 3 (0.60%) Apple
12 3 (0.60%) Cisco
12 3 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.60%) Tenable
13 2 (0.40%) HP
13 2 (0.40%) Juniper